taa
See also: Appendix:Variations of "taa"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).
Noun edit
taa (plural taas)
- A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
taa (plural taas)
- The letter ت in the Arabic script.
Etymology 3 edit
Interjection edit
taa
- Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)
Anagrams edit
Aukan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
taa
Derived terms edit
- taa taa (“different”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
taa
- tar (black substance; pitch)
References edit
- Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)
- (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
taka + -(k) (k-lative singular)
Pronunciation edit
Postposition edit
taa (+ genitive) (dialectal, poetic)
- (of movement) (to) behind
- Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.
Inflection edit
Declension of taka-
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Cannot take a possessive suffix.
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
compounds
Related terms edit
- See the inflection table.
- taka
- taka-
- tausta
- taempi
- takimmainen
Further reading edit
- “taa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
Greenlandic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
taa
Interjection edit
taa
- listen!; what is that?; I tut!
See also: ta
References edit
Nzadi edit
Noun edit
tàá (plural tàá)
Coordinate terms edit
Further reading edit
- Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).
Noun edit
taa (n class, plural taa)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).
Noun edit
taa (n class, plural taa)
Tetum edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.
Verb edit
taa
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Ideophone edit
taa
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon